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2012 INDIANA FEVER MEDIA GUIDE
#20 BRIANN JANUARY
Position: Guard
WNBA Years: 3
Height: 5-8
Weight: 144
Born: January 11, 1987 in
Spokane, Washington
High School: Lewis and Clark
(Spokane, Washington)
Indiana’s fourth-year point guard began 2011 as a Fever
starter, before sustaining a season-ending injury during her 10th
game…she enters 2012 with career averages of 7.3 points and 3.0
assists per game…January was heralded during her rookie
campaign as being one of the best steals of the 2009 WNBA Draft
…chosen by Indiana with the sixth overall selection, she exhibited
court savvy, maturity, strong defensive skills and a good shooting
touch…some of her best games came during the Fever’s 2009 run
to the WNBA Finals, evidenced by playoff averages of 10.6 points
and 3.0 assists per game…she is regarded as the club’s point
guard of the future and should hold down starting backcourt duties
alongside Aussie Olympian Erin Phillips.
PRO-WNBA
2011: January started the team’s first ten games before tearing
her right ACL and missing the remaining 24 games…she recorded
her first career double-double with 12 points and 10 assists vs.
Tulsa, 6/14…she had a career high four steals vs. Chicago,
6/4…she finished her season with averages of 8.6 points and 5.0
assists per game.
2010: January appeared in 30 games with seven
starts…initially thrust into the starting lineup for the Fever’s first
two games, she served mostly as a spot starter and top backup to
veteran point guard Tully Bevilaqua…she averaged 7.4 points, 2.0
rebounds and 3.1 assists for the season…her top game featured
season highs of 19 points and eight assists, while hitting 14 of 15
free throws at Washington, 7/24…she had a second game with
eight assists at Phoenix, 8/8…she posted nine games with doublefigure
scoring.
2009: Indiana’s first-round pick started four of 33 games in
which she appeared…she averaged 6.9 points, 2.3 assists, 1.9
rebounds and 1.09 steals per game…a season-high 17 points
against Detroit, 8/15, included 7-for-8 from the free-throw line…in
four games between 9/2 to 9/8, January averaged 13.8 points per
game…she had nine double-figure games and had a season-high
six assists in three different games…among WNBA rookie
rankings, January was second in assists and steals, fifth in free
throw percentage and seventh in scoring and minutes per game.
PLAYOFFS
2011: She missed the playoffs due to a season-ending injury.
2010: In three games against New York, she averaged 6.7
points and 2.0 assists per game.
2009: As a rookie, January appeared in all ten Fever playoff
games…January averaged 10.6 points, 3.0 assists and 2.4
rebounds per game…she scored in double figures in five of 10
playoff games, including 16 or more points on three
occasions…she led the team in 3-point percentage and was
second on the team in free throw percentage…January averaged
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College: Arizona State ‘09
Drafted: By Indiana, first round,
2009 WNBA Draft (6th overall)
12 points a game in the WNBA Finals...in Game 3 of the WNBA
Finals against Phoenix, 10/4, she had a playoff-high 17 points…in
Game 1 of the WNBA Finals at Phoenix, 9/29, she had 11 points
to go along with seven assists.
PRO-OVERSEAS
2010-11: She joined Ranana Hertzeliya of the Israeli League at
mid-season and helped the club to the semifinal round of the
playoffs…she averaged 14.5 points and 5.5 assists while sparking
the club to a 7-4 regular season mark upon her arrival…she was
named all-league honorable mention.
2009-10: January played with Tarsus in the Turkish League.
COLLEGE
The 2008 and 2009 Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year, she
was a First Team All-Pac 10 selection in 2009 and an honorable
mention All-America pick as a junior and senior...she ended her
career as Arizona State's all-time leader in assists (538) and free
throw percentage (.830)...she was also among the Sun Devils' alltime
leaders in steals (second, 272), free throws (second, 401), 3point
field goal percentage (fourth, .399), 3-point field goals (fifth,
132) and scoring (seventh, 1,317 points)...in 2008-09, she set the
school's single-season record for 3-pt field goals (65)...she is the
only player in school history to lead the team in steals and assists
four straight years.
2008-09: Ranked second in the nation in 3-point FG pct. (.469)
and 12th in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.1-to-1), January led the Pac-
10 in assists (4.7), 3-point FG percentage (.469) and assist-toturnover
ratio…she was second in steals (2.3) and fourth in FT pct.
(.840)...she averaged 13.8 points, 5.8 assists and 1.5 steals in
ASU's four NCAA Tournament games...she scored a career-best
25 points and tied a school record with seven 3-pointers in ASU's
73-59 win at UC Davis, 12/3...she nearly posted a double-double
with 10 points, nine assists and two steals in ASU's NCAA firstround
win over Georgia...she matched her scoring high in an
NCAA Tournament game with 22 points to go along with five
assists, two steals and a block in ASU's 84-69 win over Texas
A&M in the Trenton Regional semifinal, 3/29.
2007-08: She was selected an All-Pac-10 All-Academic
Honorable Mention...she finished the season ranked first in the
Pac-10 in free throw percentage (.864) and steals (2.18) while
ranking third in assists (4.39), fifth in assist-to-turnover ratio and
15th in scoring (11.3)...she scored in double figures 23 times,
including a 22-point performance against Texas, 12/22... she
averaged 13.8 points while connecting on 55.2 percent of her
shots (16-29), including 54.5 percent from beyond the arc (6-of-
11), and 85 percent of her free throws (17-of-20) in ASU's four
Pac-10 and NCAA Tournament contests.
January scored in double digits in 5 of 10 playoff games in 2009, and averaged 12 points per game in the WNBA Finals.